Rail News

Virgin Trains has completed a £40 million refurbishment of its HST and 225 fleets. Forty-five trains used on the East Coast route have been refurbished, with new interiors fitted to 410 carriages. More than 24,000 seats have been replaced, leather in...

FirstGroup and Trenitalia are to launch joint bids for the East Midlands and West Coast Partnership franchise competitions. The announcement follows the Italian state rail operator's acquisition of c2c and further demonstrates the company's ambitions in the UK market. The joint...

Alstom has received an order for 15 Citadis trams for phase two of the Kaohsiung light rail system in Taiwan. Phase two, which is due to go into service in 2019, will extend the Circular Line tram system by 13.4 km. The...

Belgium's national rail operator, SNCB, is weighing up options for a potential sale of its stake in engineering subsidiary Transurb. SNCB said it is currently "investigating strategic options" for Transurb, including the whole or partial sale of its 92 per...

Hitachi Rail Italy has begun production of a new class of double-deck regional trains at its factory in Pistoia. Hitachi, Alstom and Stadler were awarded contracts amounting to €4.5 billion in June last year to supply 450 new trains for Italy’s...

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), one of the companies developing a Hyperloop evacuated-tube transit system, has announced an exploratory agreement with the city of Brno in the Czech Republic. HTT will look at the feasibility of linking the city with Bratislava, Slovakia, which already...

HS2 has begun the procurement process which will source up to 60 trains for the first phase of Britain's new high-speed rail network. The £2.75 billion contract, which is expected to be awarded in 2019, includes both the supply and...

The Australian state of Victoria is investing in new solar farms to power Melbourne's tram network. Large solar plants capable of producing 75 megawatts (MW) of renewable electricity will be built in the state by the end of 2018, leading to an...

The Province of Utrecht has confirmed it will extend an existing agreement with CAF for new Urbos trams, ordering an additional 22 vehicles. The Spanish manufacturer is now supplying Utrecht with 59 Urbos 100 trams - the first of which...

Stadler has signed a contract with the city of Ostrava's transport body, Dopravní podnik Ostrava (DPO), for up to 40 new trams. It is the Swiss manufacturer's first order for light rail vehicles in the Czech Republic. The two-car, low-floor trams will...